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sdelmonteCan't remember the last time I posted here. Certainly it was before the pandemic. And since that became a thing, I have been doing more or less what everyone else has been, socially distancing and working from home and coping as best as humanly possible. There wasn't much I felt needed to be said.
That changed last week, when my job was terminated. Budget cuts and the usual notion that letting go an older employee might make more sense than keeping younger, cheaper ones, and maybe just a desire to sideline people left from the old regime combined to the end of a 30 year run. I am still in a bit of shock, of course. And concerned about the prospect of trying to find a new job in an economy like this one and at my age. But I am getting a decent severance package and at least for now I don't have to worry immediately about things.
And in some ways, it might be a good thing to cut ties from my old and essentially my only job and start over. If nothing else, I could use a break in the short term from the work world and from the things at the office that had been slowly eating away at me. Which doesn't mean that this doesn't sting and won't keeping stinging for a while. But maybe there is a silver lining somewhere in this rather large and overwhelming cloud.
That changed last week, when my job was terminated. Budget cuts and the usual notion that letting go an older employee might make more sense than keeping younger, cheaper ones, and maybe just a desire to sideline people left from the old regime combined to the end of a 30 year run. I am still in a bit of shock, of course. And concerned about the prospect of trying to find a new job in an economy like this one and at my age. But I am getting a decent severance package and at least for now I don't have to worry immediately about things.
And in some ways, it might be a good thing to cut ties from my old and essentially my only job and start over. If nothing else, I could use a break in the short term from the work world and from the things at the office that had been slowly eating away at me. Which doesn't mean that this doesn't sting and won't keeping stinging for a while. But maybe there is a silver lining somewhere in this rather large and overwhelming cloud.
